Why is this symbol always associated with Halloween? It doesn't mean anything evil or scary at all.

but traditionally, it does. And if we do away with traditional meanings on holidays, we might as well do away with Halloween completely...since I doubt that many people really believe that ghosts and spirits are going to roam the earth friday night.

It's just that being Wiccan the Pentagram is as sacred to me and my religion as a cross is to Christians or the Star of David is to the Jewish.

I was just wondering the need to have to use it in comparison to evil which tends to be the general theme for Halloween, With understandment of course. I just don't believe it's fair to demote my religious symbol to a mark of evil. I'm sure people of other religious heritages would be upset if they saw their religious symbols consistantly demoted to mean other things then what they really stand for.